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He thinks because daddy vladdy does stuff that way he can. Rube
United states takes over Greenland. Greenland people not USA citizens. Deported coz not citizens.
I still have my fingers crossed that RFK accidentally gives him some kind of super ebola that causes his anus to melt
He'll just wear a bigger diaper then. A huuuge diaper, absolutely tremendous. The biggest in the world.
gesticulates with tiny hands to indicate gargantuan size
How about using his powers of imagination then? The mind is the mightiest province of all (until dementia lays waste to it of course).
No. They wonβt.
And the Republicans in the audience chuckled when he said it.
Are we minions? Really? Like the entire USA doesn't have a way to remove this guy on a technicality at least? ....to be president you must also be 7ft tall or younger than 65y? Must fit thru a 12" wide slot without extruding internal organs? Something! Maybe hair must be exactly 27um thick at the root and this must be measured after a hefty meal.
Like the entire USA doesnβt have a way to remove this guy on a technicality at least?
If the entire US wanted him gone, he wouldn't have taken off to begin with. The problem is that big swaths of the country are absolutely Q-pilled on this guy. They genuinely believe his schtick (thanks, in no small part, to a fully compliant corporate media and a complicit religious movement).
Past that, there's a mushy middle that feels utterly powerless. I'm sitting here on my couch in Houston. I don't have any way to get rid of my shitty mayor, much less my fascist President. The issue isn't finding a technicality. The issue is that bureaucrats in the US aren't seriously interested in doing a coup. Comey/Mueller aren't coming to save anyone. Hell, much of the police state is in the bag for this guy in one way or another. We've got enough Pam Bondis and Tulsi Gabbards and Ken Paxtons and Pete Hegseths and Michael Flynns bouncing around the branches of government that nominally provide national security to buffer out the opposition.
It comes down to the fundamental problem of the American system of governance. We weren't that far off the mark from outright fascism under Reagan or Truman. Trump's crassness and ignominity are not, themselves, sufficient to get him removed from office. He'll get away with trying to seize control of Greenland for the same reason Bush Jr got away with invading Iraq and LBJ got away with invading Vietnam and McKinley got away with invading the Philippines. Because this is who we are as a country. We're a big military that steals shit from the periphery to enrich the elites in our imperial core.
We're an Imperial Power full of violent, invasion-loving thugs, rapists, and looters. We're doing what we've always done.
Engaged in rebellion? 14th amendment
Kinda incredible how quickly he pivoted from, "We're gonna stop spending billions on all these wars," to, "Fuck it, I feel like invading Greenland."
I feel like if they make good on their threat of exiting NATO we'll soon see the US invade an "ally"
It's fucking insane. Even MAGAs didn't vote for this. He just suddenly started talking about taking over Greenland and making Canada a state between the election and the inauguration, and the billionaires are just trying to extract whatever wealth they can out of our government before grandpa drives the car into a ditch.
This behavior was always the assumption. Trump voters know it, and the ones down here are still flyin them flags. These lead brained fucks just dont care no more. real pity havin to watch family loose their better selfs to this fascist nonsense. These same fuckers think themselfs some harolds of freedom, dispite chearing on the deportation of g-d fearn Americans based on ethnicity. Real shame to see.
aint shits been changed round here in 200 years it seems.
Yes they did. They 100% should have seen through him like everyone else and are more to blame than anyone but Trump himself.
I mean, they should have known that his anti-war stance was bullshit, but I don't think anyone saw, "maybe we'll invade Greenland," coming. That was a batshit crazy foreign policy position he just pulled out of his ass right before he took office.